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unAlaskan en · ADJ

Etymology

From un- + Alaskan.

Meanings

1. Not characteristic of or appropriate to Alaska.
   • Who was talking?. From where did that un-Alaskan sound proceed? 1904, Travel - Volume 6, page 347:
   • It was most unbushlike and positively unAlaskan. 1992, Dana Stabenow, A Cold Day for Murder, →ISBN, page 4:
   • The further fact that almost the only articulate opposition to statehood within Alaska came from representatives of or persons closely associated with absentee business interests which are the traditional betes noires in any colonial area, presented an opportunity for branding even mild questioning of the movement as "unAlaskan." 1970, George W. Rogers, The Future of Alaska, page 169:

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